yum - lack of features

[mnisay]

i would believe if they say yum would be slow for end-users mostly from dialup users world

Paul Howarth wrote:
> Timothy Murphy wrote:
> 
>> Sean O Sullivan wrote:
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>>
>>>> 1) Can't force a reinstall of package
>>>
>>>
>>> yum remove package
>>> yum install package
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>>
>>
>> My impression is that this is - or was? - rather dangerous.
>> Doesn't "yum remove <pkg>" also remove any packages which require <pkg>,
>> which may be rather a lot?
> 
> 
> This is all true but unless you use the "-y" option to yum, you get an 
> option to go ahead or cancel the operation after it's shown you what 
> it's about to remove.
> 
>> I tried the above once, and got in a mess;
>> "yum install" was not a straightforward inverse of "yum remove".
> 
> 
> Yes, this is true.
> 
> Consider the package sendmail-cf, which depends on sendmail.
> 
> "yum remove sendmail" will remove sendmail-cf too, because it depends on 
> sendmail.
> 
> "yum install sendmail" will install sendmail, but not sendmail-cf, since 
> sendmail itself does not depend on sendmail-cf.
> 
>> Personally, I would use rpm if I wanted to remove and re-install a 
>> package.
> 
> 
> Using rpm to remove a package isn't going to remove any fewer packages, 
> because you'll still need to remove all the dependent packages before 
> you can remove the one you're actually trying to remove.
> 
> Coming back to the original issue about reinstalling packages, this can 
> be done safely using rpm:
> 
> # rpm -Uvh --replacefiles --replacepkgs some.rpm
> 
> Paul.
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